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EDITED BY ALBERT SHAW

CONTENTS FOR DECEMBER,

A Dirigible over the Capitol....... Frontispiece
The Progress of the World-

The Emphatic Verdict of November 2..... 563
Now Ready to Consider "Peace Tangle"... 563
The "Fight" and the Public...
America's Unsullied Record..

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Let an Agreement Be Found at Home..
Constructive Work Now to Begin..
Harding Has Won National Confidence... 565
A Notable Harding Expression.....
What and Where Are the "Nations"?..... 566
First, States: Then Their Organizations.. 567
The Allies Will Dominate, in Fact.
A New Book on the "Peace Tangle".
Let Men Like Bass Now Be Heard.

Mr. Simonds as Expert Witness.

Mr. Root and Article X.
The Real League Must Arrive.
What Are the Party Issues?.

The Tariff in Recent History.
Permanence of Parties..

Italy and the Near East...

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BY FRANK H. SIMONDS

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THE GOVERNMENT'S DIRIGIBLE "ZODIAC NO. 1" FLYING OVER THE CAPITOL GROUNDS AT WASHINGTON (The remarkable photograph from which this illustration is engraved was taken from an army airplane. It shows the army's largest dirigible, which appears to be lower than it actually is because of the height of the photographer. The Capitol building is shown from the west front, with the Congressional Library in the background To the right is the Office Building of the members of the House of Representatives. The Senate Office Building, which is not shown very distinctly in the picture occupies a corresponding place at the left. The dirigible is 260 feet long, and was purchased in France for our Army)

VOL. LXII

THE AMERICAN

REVIEW OF REVIEWS

NEW YORK, DECEMBER, 1920

THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD

The Emphatic

Verdict of November 2

The country was fully prepared to vote on the national issues at the time when the State election was held in Maine in September. The Republican plurality for Governor in that State contest was about 65,000. Two months later the plurality for Harding over Cox in Maine was about 76,000. The indications throughout the entire campaign period were more clear than in almost any other presidential election of our entire history. The Republican victory was sweeping, decisive, and convincing as respects national opinion. The verdict would have been the same if the balloting had occurred at any time after the beginning of August. Probably, however, the Republicans gained in the size of their majorities as the campaign period dragged along. It is purely a matter of conjecture whether or not the Democrats lost votes as a result of their campaign efforts and arguments. It is proper to say, however, that the attempt to shape the League of Nations issue in such a manner that the Democratic party might be set in direct opposition to the Republican party, as nobler in spirit and more faithful to humanity in its views on our international relationships, was a dire failure.

Now Ready

There was never any reason for to Consider the assumption that the great "Peace Tangle" cause of world harmony was going to prosper if Cox was elected, and that it was going to suffer if Harding should win. The Republicans, who were all along quite certain to carry the election, were obliged to think and speak in terms of practical responsibility; and they were naturally. reluctant to commit themselves to exact courses of proceeding. They were not rehearsing the old story of the visions and dreams of 1918, but were looking forward to the actual problems with which the na

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tions of the world would be dealing in 1921. The reconstruction of the world and the prevention of war are necessary objects that cannot be attained by fixing attention exclusively upon what was said and done at Paris after the armistice of two years ago. There must be open-mindedness, and a vast deal of real effort to understand things that are by no means so simple and easy as some people have thought.

The "Fight" and

the Public

The campaign discussion differentiated two groups of people who will be able to contribute little of value to the further discussion of the subject of international organization, unless they become at once more modest and more practical. Both of these groups imagined themselves leading in what they termed a "fight." Still worse, both of them since the election have declared their purpose to go on with the "fight." Neither group is contributing anything at all to the enlightenment of the American public by its passionate flow of language. For purposes of talk, they are at opposite extremes. point of fact, however, they are on common ground in obscuring the issues and in obstructing the work of the intelligent and reasonable majority. The time has now arrived for a calm study of what is well called the "peace tangle." The great voting public refused to take any part, either way, in the so-called "League Fight." The voters merely decided against one party and in fayor of the other, for a number of reasons which to the unsophisticated were quite obvious. And the public was not stirred up at all.

America's Unsullied Record

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The unselfish contributions made by the United States to the endangered cause of freedom in the war period stand without precedent in all history. When the war was over, the

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